Tuesday, October 31, 2006

This Halloween has turned out to be a sunny day......amazing, after a run of nasty weather last week! The very rainy day last Saturday turned into a very blustery day on Sunday. We'd had so much rain and gloomy weather, it was discouraging. To my surprise, Monday dawned bright and sunny! And now here we are today with more cheery sunshine and a current temperature of 68ºF/20ºC. It just makes a body feel good!

Halloween Cats!

Fiona and Tux Junior were enjoying the afternoon sunshine when I went up to feed them yesterday.

Tux was playful in this morning's sunshine.....

......running from one fence post to another.

Sad to say we lost his daddy, the original Tuxedo, when he was hit by a car in the road last May. We've been mostly lucky about not losing our cats to the road for quite a while, but sometimes one of the kitty's gets careless (or unlucky).Pete was soaking up yesterday's sunshine.

Since we no longer have any children at home, our Halloweens are rather quiet these days. When the kids were home we would always carve pumpkins, and spend time trying to decide what to dress up as. Then I would have fun creating the costumes. They used to have a parade at school back then, but they don't do that any more at our school. In our elementary school they do have individual classroom Halloween parties for the kids though.

There would also be a party at our church, which we'd attend after I took the kids out 'trick or treating'. That custom, for those of you in countries that don't celebrate Halloween, and might wonder, is going from house to house in the neighborhood to collect candy and other treats, such as apples.

Kylie, myself and Andrew in 1977. I was dressed as Farrah Fawcett of Charlie's Angels fame :)

Here are our grandsons picking out their pumkins last year. Unfortunately we're not close enough to spend Halloween with them, but we do enjoy all the photos their mom and dad take. They like to take the boys to a local pumkin farm each year. They always have a great time finding just the right pumpkin. Last year we did visit before Halloween and took them lovely big pumpkins from our garden. It wasn't a good year for pumkins and squash this year with all the rain we had. We only got a few rather small ones.

Hi Kerri,Happy Halloween! What a delightful post! You make the prettiest Farah Fawcett! I always enjoy all your posts, but especially love it when your kitties join in!Great photos of your pumpkins and "little pumpkin pickers!"xoxox

Happy Halloween Dear Kerri.Loved that photo of you with the wee green alien (Andrew)-lol. Fantastic photo of you ALL :) Our weather was sunny today but cooler. This past week it rained much so we were happy. I am treasuring these days with Sam as they DO pass by so quickly. Beautiful pics of the kittens too- l hope they stay safe.Bests and hugs xx

Happy Halloween dear Kerri!! How I loved all your pictures...I love memories from Halloweens past! We had 112 trick or treaters come to our door tonight...it was a fairly mild evening and clear but a bit on the windy side....still better than snow!! xox

Thanks a lot Kerri for the Halloween story and all the photos! I always love to see your cats, they are so cute!Oh, by the way, apparently the good weather we had those past days finally arrived to the US. And we got your nasty one now. ;-((But you deserve it, enjoy the last sunshine before the winter comes over!

About Me

Our farm is in Upstate NY and we had a dairy herd until 2000. I grew up in Australia where summers were long and hot, so I like to spend as much time as possible during our short NY summers outside in our gardens soaking up all the warmth I can! My mother was an avid gardener and I inherited the gardening bug from her, for which I am eternally grateful!